TY - JOUR
AU - STEVENSON, A. C.
AB - PUBLIC HEALTH IN BRITAIN 1939-1945 A. C. Stevenson 1030 and the bearing of experience on the policy of compulsory vaccination is clearly responsible for the stopping of com- pulsory vaccination by the National Health Services Act. On diphtheria, the writers, while welcoming the steady reduction and associating it with the diphtheria-immuniza- tion campaign, point out how much more complete must be the immunized state of children before results com- PUBLIC HEALTH IN BRITAIN parable to those of North America will be achieved. The effects of war-conditions and of new forms of treat- 1939-1945 ment (especially for cerebrospinal fever) are discussed in relation to all the other infectious diseases. Some twenty Dr. A. C. STEVENSON cases are reported of indigenous malaria spread by Anopheles maculipennis var. atroparvus. It is surprising that there have not been more cases, when the number of London School of Hygiene 13 Tropical Medicine troops returning from malarious areas is considered in conjunction with the neglect of drainage in certain saltmarsh areas occasioned by the war. In the note on tuberculosis, reference is made to the Medical Research Council's Com- The report1 of the Chief Medical Officer of the Ministry of mittee on Tuberculosis in War 
TI - PUBLIC HEALTH IN BRITAIN 1939-1945
JF - British Medical Bulletin
DO - 10.1093/oxfordjournals.bmb.a073059
DA - 1947-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/public-health-in-britain-1939-1945-pVCd5TnVXB
SP - 72
EP - 74
VL - 5
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
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